webhelp@kuow.orgNPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94Noah Adams, long-time co-host of NPR's All Things Considered, brings more than three decades of radio experience to his current job as a contributing correspondent for NPR's National Desk., focusing on the low-wage workforce, farm issues, and the Katrina aftermath. Now based in Ohio, he travels extensively for his reporting assignments, a position he's held since 2003.Adams' career in radio began in 1962 at WIRO in Ironton, Ohio, across the river from his native Ashland, Kentucky. He was a "good music" DJ on the morning shift, and played rock and roll on Sandman's Serenade from 9 p.m. to midnight. Between shifts, he broadcasted everything from basketball games to sock hops. From 1963 to 1965, Adams was on the air from WCMI (Ashland), WSAZ (Huntington, W. Va.) and WCYB (Bristol, Va.).After other radio work in Georgia and Kentucky, Adams left broadcasting and spent six years working at various jobs, including at a construction company, an automobile dealership and an advertising agencyNPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94Noah AdamsMon, 08 Aug 2016 12:59:37 +0000Noah Adamshttp://kuow.org
Noah AdamsCopyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Musicians Descend On West Virginia For Appalachian String Band Festivalhttp://kuow.org/post/musicians-descend-west-virginia-appalachian-string-band-festival
85597 as http://kuow.orgFri, 05 Aug 2016 20:34:00 +0000Musicians Descend On West Virginia For Appalachian String Band FestivalNoah AdamsA trusty Boeing 707 is inside a new home at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The plane has graceful lines of color: white, blues and gold. In large letters: "United States of America."Nowhere does it say Air Force One — that call sign is only used when a president is actually on board. The permanent tail number is SAM (Special Air Mission) 26000. Historian Jeff Underwood used to pronounce the tail number, like you would say the number 26,000, but he was wrong."I was sharply corrected by one of the crew members," Underwood says. "He told me 'no it was the SAM two six thousand'. I learned my lesson I always refer to it as SAM two six thousand."It's often called the Kennedy airplane, the one that carried the president to Berlin in 1963. Later that year, on Nov. 22, John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy flew to Dallas, landing at Love Field. He was assassinated in Dallas, his body flown, on this plane, back to Andrews Air Force Base.We are on board Air Force OneMuseum Builds New Hangar To Show Off Former Air Force Onehttp://kuow.org/post/museum-builds-new-hanger-show-former-air-force-one
80854 as http://kuow.orgSun, 05 Jun 2016 12:15:00 +0000Museum Builds New Hangar To Show Off Former Air Force OneNoah AdamsMarietta College has earned a global reputation for its program in petroleum engineering, drawing students from as far away as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and China to this liberal arts school in southeast Ohio.In the past, nearly every one of the program's graduates has scored a good job in the surging energy field. But not this year. As the price of oil has plummeted, companies are cutting back on production and expansion, and cutting into Marietta's placement rate.Katie Plas, scheduled to graduate in 2017, thinks she'll be OK. Her grades in the petroleum engineering program are top-level, and her freshman summer internship — a key element of the program — was exceptional. It's like a gold star on a resume.She worked as a roustabout in Arkansas. Plas says it was dirty work, and sometimes dangerous."I wore flame-retardant clothing, all day long. And it gets rather hot especially when it's a hundred degrees." She was 19, using a sledgehammer, grateful for the growing-up work on her family'sHow Low Oil Prices Are Changing Career Plans At An Ohio Collegehttp://kuow.org/post/how-low-oil-prices-are-changing-career-plans-ohio-college
74649 as http://kuow.orgSat, 12 Mar 2016 22:00:00 +0000How Low Oil Prices Are Changing Career Plans At An Ohio CollegeNoah AdamsThanksgiving feasts are always in need of something special.Can a sprinkle of artisanal salt noticeably pump up the experience?Let's meet a new Appalachian salt-maker in West Virginia and find out.J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works is nestled in the Kanawha River Valley, just southeast of the capital city of Charleston in the small town of Malden (not to be confused with Maldon, a sea salt brand from the U.K.). It's mostly pasture land, with cows nearby.Amid the livestock, there's a new, small — you could call it micro — salt works."This is our well, in the field over here. It goes down 350 feet," Nancy Bruns, CEO of J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works, says.The wellhead is simple, white and about 2 feet high. It took a couple of weeks to drill, and then came the salty water."It did gush; it absolutely did gush. We went through a lot of fresh water on the way down. And we all had cups, we were tasting it on the way down, and I just said no, keep drilling, it's not salty yet."She's a seventh-generationFine Brine From Appalachia: The Fancy Mountain Salt That Chefs Prizehttp://kuow.org/post/fine-brine-appalachia-fancy-mountain-salt-chefs-prize
68077 as http://kuow.orgWed, 25 Nov 2015 23:09:00 +0000Fine Brine From Appalachia: The Fancy Mountain Salt That Chefs PrizeNoah Adamshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmRRhxo0RHc Here in Pall Mall, Tenn., you can walk up on the front porch of the Forbus General Store, est. 1892, and still hear Alvin C. York's rich Tennessee accent.Every day, the older neighbors gather on the store's front porch."My grandfather used to cut Sgt. Alvin York's hair," Richard West recalls. "He would pay a quarter. He was a big man, redheaded."York was a Medal of Honor winner. One of the most decorated American heroes of World War I.At the end of the war, when he returned to his home here in the mountains of north Tennessee, all he wanted was to build a school. A school that would help his neighbors' kids get the education he had missed.York had only finished the third grade in a one-room school. His family needed him on the farm. But he liked to read, kept a diary, and because of the war had seen a world beyond the ridgeline: London, Paris, New York.Pete Smith, whittling red cedar on the porch, remembers the day of Alvin York's funeral inRemembering Sgt. York, A War Hero Who Built A Schoolhttp://kuow.org/post/remembering-sgt-york-war-hero-who-built-school
67134 as http://kuow.orgWed, 11 Nov 2015 15:30:00 +0000Remembering Sgt. York, A War Hero Who Built A SchoolNoah AdamsIf you could make a lot of bourbon whiskey these days, you could be distilling real profits. Bourbon sales in this country are up 36 percent in the past five years. But you'd need new wooden barrels for aging your new pristine product. Simple white oak barrels, charred on the inside to increase flavor and add color, are becoming more precious than the bourbon. Making these barrels is a very old craft, almost an art, called cooperage. The Scots-Irish who settled in Appalachia could do this: Cut the white oak boards into staves, steam them to bend, make metal hoops to hold the barrel tight. You can see this process is the small town of Lebanon, Ky. This cooperage is one of several owned by a company called Independent Stave, which is based in Missouri and is the largest maker of whiskey barrels in the world. As the barrels take shape they are carried, rolled, and conveyed — sometimes overhead — to the different work stations. Starting out as a collection of oak staves, they are fittedAs Bourbon Booms, Demand For Barrels Is Overflowinghttp://kuow.org/post/bourbon-booms-demand-barrels-overflowing
47333 as http://kuow.orgMon, 29 Dec 2014 22:03:00 +0000As Bourbon Booms, Demand For Barrels Is OverflowingNoah AdamsHere's what might have sounded like a pretty shaky business plan for a neighborhood pizza cafe: "We'll only be open one day a week. Won't do any advertising. No prices on the menus. We'll serve mostly what we grow in the garden – and no pepperoni. And we'll look on this work as an 'experiment of faith.'"That's what Erin and Robert Lockridge said two years ago, when they decided to open a pizza place called Moriah Pie in Norwood, a small town part of greater Cincinnati.The better days in Norwood, an old neighborhood of two-story houses with porches, came to a close in 1989 when the Chevrolet plant shut down. But an empty, dusty café was waiting on a street corner, and Lockridges decided to start making pizzas there.These two shared an interest in urban farming and had been working together in Norwood. Robert was what he calls a "parish farmer" sponsored by a church. On their honeymoon, driving from Novia Scotia to Maine, they talked about what might come next."We stopped at ... EastportAn Unlikely Friday Night Pizza Cafe Has A Big Hearthttp://kuow.org/post/unlikely-friday-night-pizza-caf-cinicinnati-has-big-heart
43591 as http://kuow.orgSun, 26 Oct 2014 14:22:00 +0000An Unlikely Friday Night Pizza Cafe Has A Big HeartNoah AdamsThis story began in 2012 while I was working on a story in Iowa. I was taking pictures on a foggy afternoon and saw a young girl on a blue bicycle, a newspaper bag slung across her shoulder. She stopped and held up a copy of The Daily Times Herald.These days, most newspapers are delivered by fast-moving adults driving vans and trucks. I guess I didn't know that kids still had paper routes, anywhere.Turns out, if you're a kid living near Carroll, Iowa, and you want to make some money and have an adventure, you're growing up in the right place.In Carroll, a town of 10,000 surrounded by farmland, factories and parks, the award-winning Daily Times Herald still relies on young people to get the news to local homes each day.The family that owns and runs the paper believes the most important news they cover is about the town's young people — schools, sports, the arts — and it just makes sense to have them delivering those stories to the community.Jaxson Kuhlmann delivers 36 to 38 papers dailyCarroll, Iowa: Where The Childhood Paper Route Is Alive And Wellhttp://kuow.org/post/carroll-iowa-where-childhood-paper-route-alive-and-well
39639 as http://kuow.orgWed, 06 Aug 2014 21:26:00 +0000Carroll, Iowa: Where The Childhood Paper Route Is Alive And WellNoah AdamsSaturday marks the 140th Run for the Roses: the Kentucky Derby. Great horses, great hats — but where's the Pappy Van Winkle bourbon for the mint juleps?Last October, more than 200 bottles of the prized spirit were stolen right out of the distillery in Frankfort, Ky. The county sheriff believes it was an inside job, and a $10,000 reward remains on offer.Pat Melton, the sheriff of Franklin County, Ky., has these facts: In the small city of Frankfort, 222 bottles disappeared from the Buffalo Trace Distillery. The bourbon had been aging in oak barrels, some since the mid-'90s, and the bottles were in a locked, secured area, ready to be shipped.Melton says this had to be an inside job. "It had to be internal. It was behind a second lock and key inside a warehouse," he says. "That was a good clue and a good start."A Reward From 'Somebody That Cares About Bourbon'In the sheriff's office, they're following the phone tips and the email trail. "Detectives have interviewed more than 100 employeesWant A Shot At $10,000? Solve Kentucky's Great Bourbon Mysteryhttp://kuow.org/post/want-shot-10000-solve-kentuckys-great-bourbon-mystery
33791 as http://kuow.orgFri, 02 May 2014 21:27:00 +0000Want A Shot At $10,000? Solve Kentucky's Great Bourbon MysteryNoah AdamsIn new installment of the Spring Break series, Noah Adams visits the Serpent Mound in southern Ohio. It's not a burial site; it's a massive, grass-covered effigy of a snake, created a thousand years ago. Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: On a grassy ridge in southern Ohio you can walk beside a thousand-year-old work of art - a mound of Earth that rises from the ground and uncoils like a magnificent snake. We're talking about the Serpent Mound.NPR'S Noah Adams went to see it on a trip that's part of our Spring Break series.NOAH ADAMS, BYLINE: The Serpent Mound sounds a little sinister. You can see a bit of it when you get out of your car. But maybe we should do what all Americans like to do first, go straight to the museum gift shop.It's a turkey call. The Native Americans might have used something like this, it's made from a piece of cane. Tim Goodwin demonstrated the turkey call for us. He is the Serpent Mound Park manager, showing us some of the IndianThe Ohio Snake Art That's Been Mid-Slither For A Millenniumhttp://kuow.org/post/ohio-snake-art-thats-been-mid-slither-millennium
32769 as http://kuow.orgThu, 17 Apr 2014 21:30:00 +0000The Ohio Snake Art That's Been Mid-Slither For A MillenniumNoah AdamsIn early January, West Virginia's Elk River was contaminated by a chemical spill near Charleston. NPR's Noah Adams returns to the Elk nearly two months later to follow the course of the river.For A New View On The West Virginia Spill, Follow The Elk Riverhttp://kuow.org/post/new-view-west-virginia-spill-follow-elk-river
30483 as http://kuow.orgThu, 13 Mar 2014 20:28:00 +0000For A New View On The West Virginia Spill, Follow The Elk RiverNoah AdamsIn The Heat Of The Foundry, Steinway Piano 'Hearts' Are Madehttp://kuow.org/post/heat-foundry-steinway-piano-hearts-are-made
23563 as http://kuow.orgSat, 09 Nov 2013 22:00:00 +0000In The Heat Of The Foundry, Steinway Piano 'Hearts' Are MadeNoah AdamsOne year ago the Michigan apple harvest, hurt by a late winter warm-up and a spring freeze, was almost nonexistent at 3 million bushels. This fall, the crop is projected to yield a record-setting 30 million bushels, but now there's concern that not enough pickers will be in the orchards.In west Michigan, there's an apple-growing region called The Ridge, where they will be talking for years down the road about that bleak 2012 apple calendar. At the time, grower Phil Schwallier said it was so bad they gave individual names to each apple they found, starting with Alice."We got up to Rachel. We found, in other words, about 20 apples," he said.Fast forward a year and Schwallier says he is seeing a lot of great apples. "Blemish-free, large, nice red color, and firm," he says. "And they're sticking on the trees so far."When the apples are ready and ripe, getting them picked could be a problem. Even though there's more money on the trees, not enough seasonal workers have shown up. But so far,Michigan Apple Harvest Recovers, But Pickers Are Scarcehttp://kuow.org/post/michigan-apple-harvest-recovers-pickers-are-scarce
22437 as http://kuow.orgTue, 22 Oct 2013 07:17:00 +0000Michigan Apple Harvest Recovers, But Pickers Are ScarceNoah AdamsAs the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, All Things Considered concludes its series about the moments that defined the historic summer of 1963. Back in 1999, Noah Adams explored the history and legacy of the song "We Shall Overcome" for the NPR 100. The audio link contains a condensed version of that piece. It is not a marching song. It is not necessarily defiant. It is a promise: "We shall overcome someday. Deep in my heart, I do believe."It has been a civil rights song for 50 years now, heard not just in the U.S. but in North Korea, in Beirut, in Tiananmen Square, in South Africa's Soweto Township. But "We Shall Overcome" began as a folk song, a work song. Slaves in the fields would sing, 'I'll be all right someday.' It became known in the churches. A Methodist minister, Charles Albert Tindley, published a version in 1901: "I'll Overcome Someday."The first political use came in 1945 in Charleston, S.C. There was a strike against the American Tobacco Co.The Inspiring Force Of 'We Shall Overcome'http://kuow.org/post/inspiring-force-we-shall-overcome
19354 as http://kuow.orgWed, 28 Aug 2013 22:39:00 +0000The Inspiring Force Of 'We Shall Overcome'Noah AdamsThe writer Elmore Leonard has died. He was 87 years old and had recently suffered a stroke.For decades, Leonard — working at the very top of his profession as a crime writer — had been widely acclaimed, and universally read. He published 46 novels, which resulted in countless movie and TV adaptations, including the movies Out of Sight and Get Shorty and the TV series Justified.Leonard lived in Bloomfield Village, just outside Detroit, and in his library, he kept a copy of every book he ever wrote. Most of them are about robbery and mayhem, people chasing after bags of money, but he started as a Western writer, with Bounty Hunter in 1953. He wrote the first draft by hand — he never stopped doing that — using canary yellow pads that a local printer always made for him:"And I've been using this paper ever since I left the ad agency where they used these pads," Leonard said in a 2010 interview.Even before Bounty Hunter, Leonard had been an advertising man, a copywriter on the ChevroletElmore Leonard, The 'Dickens Of Detroit,' Dies At 87http://kuow.org/post/elmore-leonard-dickens-detroit-dies-87
18898 as http://kuow.orgTue, 20 Aug 2013 19:42:00 +0000Elmore Leonard, The 'Dickens Of Detroit,' Dies At 87Noah AdamsUpon hearing news of the death of Elmore Leonard, NPR correspondent and former All Things Considered co-host Noah Adams recalls a day he spent with the crime writer in his hometown.Three years ago, I rode with Elmore Leonard in the back of a rental car to see Detroit and remember what it once was. Much of it was sadly puzzling to him, especially the empty space where Tiger Stadium had been.The driver was Gregg Sutter, Leonard's researcher, webmaster and unofficial publicist. Sutter had flown in overnight from Los Angeles to be on hand for my day-long visit. He drove us out of Bloomfield Village down Woodward Avenue, reminding Elmore of once-favorite bars, showing me the Detroit Police Department on Beaubien Avenue featured in many of his stories.Leonard had wonderment in his soft voice. He'd remember characters he'd dreamed up — the confused victims, the steel-willed but often blundering bad guys. I loved hearing him talk, and I'd already asked him to read several pages of his work.A Day With Elmore Leonard And The White Castle That Wasn'thttp://kuow.org/post/day-elmore-leonard-and-white-castle-wasnt
18890 as http://kuow.orgTue, 20 Aug 2013 19:19:00 +0000A Day With Elmore Leonard And The White Castle That Wasn'tNoah AdamsHow do you fix a neighborhood? What do you do about crime and drugs and the once-lovely old houses that are falling down? The answer in Paducah, Ky., was to turn it into a special place for artists to live, work and sell.Paducah, already home to the National Quilt Museum, is far west on the edge of Kentucky, on the Ohio River. Lowertown, so-named for being downriver from downtown Paducah, was once quite elegant — 25 square blocks. But in time it became a difficult place to admire.Bill and Patience Renzulli came to Paducah from Maryland for the first time in 2001 after seeing an ad in an art magazine for the neighborhood's Artist Relocation Program. At first glance, Bill says the scene of the neighborhood was awful."But I don't know... I felt something," he says. "There was a spark and I thought that something good could happen."On their visit, The Renzullis were dismayed by condemned buildings, grand Victorian homes chopped up into apartments, drug use, crack sales and prostitution.In Paducah, Artists Create Something From Nothinghttp://kuow.org/post/paducah-artists-create-something-nothing
18270 as http://kuow.orgFri, 09 Aug 2013 07:05:00 +0000In Paducah, Artists Create Something From NothingNoah AdamsAt 41, with long black hair, Stuart Neville looks more like the rock guitarist he used to be than the author he is now. He lives in a small town with his family — not in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the city that plays a central role in his thrillers, but just outside it.This week, world leaders are gathered in Northern Ireland for the G-8 conference, but such a meeting would have been unthinkable before the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which brought Catholics and Protestants together in a new, tense, power-sharing government. Neville sets most of his work in the time following that agreement, which ended the 30-year conflict known as The Troubles.An Uneasy TruceStanding outside what was formerly the Northern Bank, across from Belfast's City Hall, Neville recalls the details of a heist in which approximately 26 million pounds were stolen. Residents still talk about it today."They drove a lorry up the side, opened the door, money was loaded into the lorry and away they went," Neville says.In Neville's Thrillers, Belfast's Violent Past Still Burnshttp://kuow.org/post/nevilles-thrillers-belfasts-violent-past-still-burns
15058 as http://kuow.orgMon, 17 Jun 2013 06:57:00 +0000In Neville's Thrillers, Belfast's Violent Past Still BurnsNoah AdamsWhen a tornado roars into a populated area, the change is often drastic and deadly, and it happens within minutes. As the people of Oklahoma struggle to look beyond this month's devastating storms, residents of Xenia, Ohio, are reflecting on the tornado of 1974.Xenia, in southwest Ohio near Dayton, became well-known to the nation that year. "Everywhere I go, and I've been all over the U.S., if I say I'm from Xenia people say, 'tornado,' " says Catherine Wilson, who runs the historical society in Xenia. She still gets a lot of questions about the twister.Late in the afternoon of April 3, 1974, a radar image, lit up with storms, cut into The Andy Griffith Show on local television station WHIO. "The hook in our radar screen is now moving into the city of Xenia," the weatherman warned. "Persons in the city of Xenia and along a track just south of it should take cover immediately."The wind was so strong it blew seven railroad freight cars off the tracks downtown. One thousand buildings wereIn Ohio Town, Okla. Twister Conjures Echoes Of 1974 Disasterhttp://kuow.org/post/ohio-town-okla-twister-conjures-echoes-1974-disaster
14129 as http://kuow.orgFri, 31 May 2013 21:49:00 +0000In Ohio Town, Okla. Twister Conjures Echoes Of 1974 DisasterNoah AdamsLast year, almost the entire Michigan apple crop was lost because of 80-degree days in March and then some freezing April nights. This year, the apples are back, but everything always depends on the weather. The state was under a freeze warning Sunday night — a scary prospect if you're an apple grower and your trees have just come into bloom.Tim Boles and his agribusiness colleague Case DeYoung were driving to work one morning in late April 2012 after a killing frost had hit the apple orchards in The Ridge, a region of ridges and rolling valleys in the west-central part of the state close to Lake Michigan. They stopped at a high point and knew things were bad when they saw the helicopters hovering, hoping to push down a warmer layer of air."Some of the farmers from the area had gone down south and brought back smudge pots to generate some warm air and smoke to try and help warm the trees," Boles says. "So you had the sound of the helicopters — thump, thump, thump — and the smoke andMichigan Apple Orchards Blossom After A Devastating Yearhttp://kuow.org/post/michigan-apple-orchards-blossom-after-devastating-year
13022 as http://kuow.orgTue, 14 May 2013 07:27:00 +0000Michigan Apple Orchards Blossom After A Devastating Year